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agribusiness
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agribusiness

Commercial farming on an industrial scale, often financed by companies whose main interests lie outside agriculture, for example multinational corporations. Agribusiness farms are mechanized, large, highly structured, and reliant on chemicals.

Many farms now specialize in one particular crop, maximizing yields by extending field sizes and areas under cultivation.



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As intense capitalist accumulation promoted by the military dictatorship, especially in the late 1960s and 1970s, encouraged foreign capital investment and export-driven agrobusiness, "national security" considerations added to the pressure to shrink lands reserved for the Xavante and other indigenous populations.
 
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